Harryp Cain News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Medicare reforms are needed to secure value for patients, enhance the program’s solvency, and reduce its burden on current and future taxpayers.

Members of Congress, their staffs, and approximately 9 millionother federal workers, retirees, and their families in the42-year-old Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) areable, unlike most americans, to choose a plan that best meets theirneeds from almost 200 private options nationwide, includingfee-for-service, preferred provider organization, and managed careplans, and those sponsored by unions and employee organizations.

President Bush, in developing his own legislative reform proposalfor Medicare, can build on the best of the Breaux-Frist proposals,which promise a good start to this year's debate on Medicarereform.

Getting The Details Right:  The Key Do's And Don'ts OfMedicare Reform

(Archived document, may contain errors) 3/29/94 220 WHY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND FEDERAL WORKERS DON'T WANT THE CLINTON HEALTH PLAN (Updating Backgrounder No. 953, "Why Federal Unions Want to Escape the Clinton Health Plan," August 4, 1993, and Executive Memorandum No. 369, "Why the Clinton Administration Will Be Exempt from the Clinton Health Plan," November 9, 1993.)